Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:52:42 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted Message-ID: <385918DA.8F7F84D@softweyr.com> References: <3858C600.41C6@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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Roger Hardiman wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to build some new Multi-Head FreeBSD machines > in my lab using XFree86 3.9.16. > > I want to know which VGA cards to buy > for Multi-Head (dual monitor) support. > > Currently I have 1 multi-head FreeBSD machine using > Matrox Millenium cards abd XFree86 3.9.16. > It works great, but you cannot buy Millenium cards any more. > > Reading the XFree86 docs, it seems almost all PCI cards are > supported multihead on Linux where they can issue an INT 10 > call to initialise the BIOS in the secondary card. > I'm not sure it we can support that in FreeBSD. Have you considered buying Metro-X? It supports up to 4 screens on just about any combination of AGP and PCI Matrox cards. For more information, see http://www.metrolink.com/productindex.html and look for Multi-Headed Display Support. Metro-X is only $39. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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